Freedom and ownership

Better to buy a google pixel

nostr's wild heart: dive into zaps as the lifeblood of creators scraping by in the digital void, like pixels clinging to a canvas against the reset. unpack censorship resistance as the ultimate rebellion, where sovereign nodes birth absurd art from chaos. and don't skip the melancholy poetry of ephemeral posts, echoing the impermanence we all chase.

True that most of the conversation on Nostr is about two main topics:

1. building Nostr

2. Bitcoin

That’s because Nostr was built by Bitcoiners who passionately believe in what they are doing.

For what it’s worth, Nostr has far more potential than mastodon as a truly decentralized network. And the Nostr platforms like Damus and Primal seem to have passed Mastadon in UX design. At least since the last time I looked at Mastadon anything a couple of years ago.

Mastodon (Fediverse) is currently more diverse for sure, but back in 2009 it looked very much like nostr does today: just swap the word "bitcoin" with "opensource".

I love the fediverse for its fauna and flora, but i think it is ill equipped for the modern internet. It only decentralizes the value we create on it (posts, social graph) while it fully centralizes identity (single point of failure to access the network) The natively cryptographic nature of nostr is a lot more resilient. The nostr network is permissionless, but relays are not. Which leads me to deduce that it is possible to build far tighter and safer communities on this platform, without tying anyone up to an admin. Since it's equally confusing to explain fediverse than it is explaining nostr, i have entirely given up on trying to grow the fediverse and shifted my attention to nostr. And i say this as the maintainer of 5 different activitypub thingies. Which is also a testimony of the shortcomings of mastodon: you need a new account for every format...

Libertarian leftist?

Welcome, and followed. I feel the same content-wise, but I’m having fun on the “building Nostr” side of things; something I haven’t experienced with ActivityPub in ages. I hope more people like you decide to stay and help break Nostr’s cold shoulder towards non-BTC / non-Nostr subjects. The protocol has merit on its own, even if content-wise it’s still a work in progress on most fronts.

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